| Subject | English | Portuguese |
| comp., MS, Braz. | database instance | instância do banco de dados (An instance of a database environment, including the RDBMS software, table structure, stored procedures and other functionality) |
| comp., MS | database instance | instância de base de dados (An instance of a database environment, including the RDBMS software, table structure, stored procedures and other functionality) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | SQL Database instance | instância do Banco de Dados SQL (An individual database instance of the SQL Database service in Windows Azure) |